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Date of source: Friday, November 5, 2004
The purpose behind making Shari’a a source of legislation is because it is a fully developed legal system acknowledged by the international law assemblies. Since the Shari’a includes various concepts, it should be subject to well-formulated legal rules as Shari’a here is the source of legislation,...
Date of source: Monday, October 11, 2004
Representatives of the Presbyterian Church and members of various Jewish groups in the United States met on September 29 in New York to discuss the decision of the church to boycott Israel and any organization whose annual donations to Israel exceed one million U.S. dollars. The decision, reached...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Dr. Amna Nosseir, a professor of jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University, has been calling on the Dar Al-Ifta to set up a council involving all specializations in all walks of life to thoroughly study public affairs of concern to major issues in society like organ transplants, bank profits and...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq was able to embarrass his opponents when he presented the statement issued by the Egyptian Grand Mufti, Dr. Ali Goma’a, in which he emphasized that unifying the Azan is lawful according to Shari’a and that the great four Muslim imams permitted performing a singe Azan for a...
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
The Coptic case is a case of a religious minority looking for full recognition and integration, enjoying all rights and duties, in their country, while preserving their cultural heritage. In other words, the prognosis of the Copts’ situation should, in fact, be summed-up under one heading: being...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 2004
If anyone would like to see an example of the media of strife, he may take a look at the distorted, fabricated news published by Arabic papers last week. This news is about the statement Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi made at the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate about the resistance against the Americans...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 15, 2004
The legislation regulating the application of Islamic Shari'a is underway in the Ontario province under the arbitration law. The new legislation will allow the creation of an Islamic organization to offer arbitration and mediation services in personal status cases, such as divorce and inheritance....
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2004
The Brotherhood dominated the Egyptian street and it became the nightmare of the National Democratic party not only because of their efficiency, or because religion is one of the main components of the Egyptian character. But there many other reasons: the deteriorated economic conditions of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
These days, Arab newspapers are full of commentaries putting the blame on Muslims for terrorism and others practiced self-flagellation and self-hatred to the extent that they claimed the history of Muslims is a history of oppression, tyranny and baseness. No one asks himself whether what is...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi, head of the World Islamic Council for Fatwa stated that killing American civilians in Iraq is halal [lawful according to Islamic Shari’a]. Sheikh Al-Qaradawi explained that American military men and civilians invaded Iraq to occupy it and exploit its wealth. In order to...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.